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Orientalism / Edward W. Said.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Vintage Books, [1994]Copyright date: ©1994Edition: Vintage Books edition. With a new afterword by the authorDescription: xxx, 394 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 039474067X
  • 9780394740676
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DS12.S253.O754 1994
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Contents:
The scope of orientalism. Knowing the oriental ; Imaginative geography and its representations : orientalizing the oriental ; Projects ; Crisis -- Orientalist structures and restructures. Redrawn frontiers, redefined issues, secularized religion ; Silverstre de Sacy and Ernest Renan : rational anthropology and philological laboratory ; Oriental residence and scholarship : the requirements of lexicography and imagination ; Pilgrims and pilgrimages, British and French -- Orientalism now. Latent and manifest orientalism ; Style, expertise, vision : orientalism's worldliness ; Modern Anglo-French orientalism in fullest flower ; The latest phase.
Summary: Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward W. Said, in which the author establishes the term "Orientalism" as a critical concept to describe the West's commonly contemptuous depiction and portrayal of The East, i.e. the Orient.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The scope of orientalism. Knowing the oriental ; Imaginative geography and its representations : orientalizing the oriental ; Projects ; Crisis -- Orientalist structures and restructures. Redrawn frontiers, redefined issues, secularized religion ; Silverstre de Sacy and Ernest Renan : rational anthropology and philological laboratory ; Oriental residence and scholarship : the requirements of lexicography and imagination ; Pilgrims and pilgrimages, British and French -- Orientalism now. Latent and manifest orientalism ; Style, expertise, vision : orientalism's worldliness ; Modern Anglo-French orientalism in fullest flower ; The latest phase.

Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward W. Said, in which the author establishes the term "Orientalism" as a critical concept to describe the West's commonly contemptuous depiction and portrayal of The East, i.e. the Orient.

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